The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06
A SLICK OFFICIAL.
He Keeps the Proper Incumbent ofan
Office Out.
From, the Pensacola (Fta.) Commercial

From the Pensacola (Fkd) Commercial
A story of official malfeasance is reported
from the north end Of the county, the
charges in which, if they can be proved, will
place the offender in bad predicament. 1t
will be remembered by the readers of the
Commercial that little bitterness had been
engendered at Bluff Springs by the appoint
ment of Cameron A. Moreno, Esq, as Post
master at that place, and it is in that con-
nection that the strange tale runneth.
Mr.. Moreno, who very recently received
unofficial Notice OF his appointments, waited
in vain for many days for his commission,
having forwarded his bond and other neces-
sary papers in the premises; the failure of
the paper to arrive, of course, prompted
him TO write to an intimate friend in this
city, who replied, stating that the commits
sion, as he had every reason to know, had
been forwarded. Strange to say, Mr.. Mo
reno never received the reply; he wrote to
another FREUD here asking him to see the
gentleman first written to and inquire as to
whether or not reply to his letter had
been mailed. The first gentleman then
thought he smelled a mouse, if not a long
tailed, large-sized rat, and, acting upon his
suspicious, he wrote another resident of
Bluff Springs, enclosing a letter to Mr..
Moreno, which the latter received all right.
He was informed that it was barely posi-
ble that his mail was being withheld by the
then Postmaster Y. D. Williams, that his
commission and the letter formerly written
by the gentleman were probably then at the
Bluff Spring office, and that little deci
sion on the part of himself would doubtless
bring forth the documents. Mr.. Moreno
! then went to the post office and informed
Williams that he had authentic information
| to the effect that some one had been tam
pering with his mail, and that he intended
AIo4
hld been forwarded and some one had done
away with it. A few minutes afterward
Williams went down to Moreno's place of
business and gave him two letters, one con-
| tanning his commission, the other the reply
of the gentleman in this city TO whom he
had first written. Williams explanation of
the delay in delivery was that he often
| shook the mail matter out on the floor, and
that probably the two packages had bounced
into trash pile under the counter, where
he had found them.
new phase appeared upon the whole
matter. When Mr. Moreno glanced at his
| commission he found that it bore date of
Oct. 20, 1894 He Immediately sat down
and wrote the Postmaster General, asking
an explanation, and he was informed that
he had been appointed to the office on Oct
20, 1884: that the oath of Office blank bond,
etc, had been forwarded, and that in a
failure to hear from him, several letters ask
ing an explanation of his refusal to act
in the matter had been written him. Not
one of these was received by Mr. Moreno
1t appears that in 1884 Mr.. Moreno was
an applicant for the Office, but never hear
ing that his application had borne fruit, he
quietly paid no more attention to the mat
ter, thinking that Williams, who was then
Postmaster, had been continued in the Office.
II is believed from all of these facts that
Williams, acting in his own interest, had
withheld all OF Moreno's mail matter that
might possibly throw any light upon the
situation, and kept himself in while he kept
Moreno out for nearly three years.